Chapter 1: What unusual activities should be avoided on Friday the 13th?
Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractible! this episode. Waterlogging Wade maniacally masticates, fanatically flosses, then gets into the Templar's terror. Magnifiable Mark teaches movie-like moments, fires more staff, mentions Magnificent Mary, Scrubscream 7, slaughters Norse words, and fucks Gaston.
Brobding Naggy and Bob gains high mileage, lengthily lambasts Wade, proposes buying peen, and dodges horror. Fremé D.R., to Frigatriscodecaphobia. It's time for Friday the 13th. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Distractable. I'm today's host because fate saw it fit to be so.
Joined as always by my co-hosts, Mark and Bob. This is the show where one of us hosts, the other two compete for points. Whoever has the most at the end gets to win and host the next one. Hi guys. Hello. Hi. All right, that's all I had. That's all I had in my script. So you guys talk now. What's up? What's new? That's the whole episode. That's the episode. We're done.
I mean, I've got a interesting little tidbit about the movie that not many people would know. Great. Apple just announced this whole new line of things. One of them, which is a new display, which is very expensive. And I'm not saying I recommend it, but I will say this. There were certain moments in the movie where you need ADR. ADR stands for... Oh, sure, sure.
Yeah, it's where you record a line that wasn't captured on set either because it wasn't captured well or you're trying to replace a dialogue or sneak something in, right? So there's a couple of moments where it is. And the trouble with ADR is that it stands out if it's not done well, right?
Usually in the circumstances I'm working with Brad the sound guy and he's got a good microphone we're in a good sound environment and I've done it on my own during the edit where I've like I've got I've got access to good microphones I've got good sound environments I know how to do that and I know how to record so I've done ADR through a couple times throughout the movie where I've done it with like.
this condenser mic, which is, you know, it didn't work because, you know, we didn't have this type of mic on set. So clearly that isn't right.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of Friday the 13th in popular culture?
So I got the exact shotgun microphone and lav that we had on set, and I tried that. And it still wasn't quite a perfect match, but, you know, Brad was able to massage it a bit better. And then I got a really high-end, like, shotgun mic that was a stereo mic. And I'm like, okay, let's try something else here, funky. And it didn't get well. Well, I got to tell you.
On one of the final passes of the edit, I recorded some temp stuff because I was like, I'm not even going to worry about it. I'm not even going to try to make this match. I'm not going to set up my big microphone. There's a microphone in this monitor. I'm just going to record it temp so I have it and I know to replace it. It'll sound so bad that it'll be so easy to replace. Gets over to Brad.
He messages me or when I show up there for this final stage, he's like, Man, whatever mic you used for these last ADR was really good. Like, it just melted right in. It was perfect. It just sat so good in there. And I was like, you motherfucker. That was on a monitor. It was a monitor's microphone built in. It was one of Apple's studio displays.
And that's not to say that that's the greatest microphone ever, but I have to remember, and this is important about ADRs, if you're recording stuff on set, you have to remember that that is not a perfect sound environment. Especially the Iron Lung. The sub is literally a barrel, right? It's got... Reverb, there's no sound dampening.
It's kind of a knockley environment There's also in a warehouse, you know kind of like bleeds out bleeds in the thing about that microphone is like it's just shitty enough that it replicates the the kind of bad environment and it's Important because the size of the room I was recording was just a regular bedroom, but it kind is roughly the size of that room It's not a barrel shaped but you know
so it's important to remember it's not about the best highest quality equipment that you could possibly get especially when you're doing ADR because you didn't you might have had good equipment but you didn't have a controlled environment when you're recording it on set and almost all of the stuff in the movie still sounds good because it just has that room and if you have a clean room with no reverb it's not going to sound as good because well it won't sound right because it won't match everything else
right okay there you go that's my lesson about i do like that that's very funny i've definitely watched movies and tv where they're like the the dialogue has a certain quality to it and then you get to a moment where they clearly did it did some adr or to put something in and they're like then we go outside
Whoa, what the fuck?
It's not even like it's bad audio. It's just like jarring when there's nothing happening but a person talking, but you're like, did we just teleport? Did we time travel? What happened? Some water log in my ear. Yeah, I've heard of situations where actors sometimes refuse to go into an ADR studio to go do something and they just record it on their phone.
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Chapter 3: Why is Friday considered an unlucky day?
I think their goal is like 10,000 steps a day. But it's working, and I am keeping up. It's been difficult. We traveled, and we had other stuff going on, but as of right now, I can get the actual... Nope, it's not going to happen. There it is. I have 58 miles under my belt, and I believe that's approximately the right number of days in this year. So I'm still on track, which is exciting.
That's awesome. It's getting to the point now where in the beginning it was exciting and I definitely got into the point where it was like, ugh, this sucks. We're traveling. I don't want to do this.
And I'm starting to finally get back into a rhythm and it's getting to that point where it's like, I'm succeeding. I just need to make it till the end of the year. Like I'm getting, it's a habit. So it's not like, it's not new and exciting, but I'm like invested in it now, which feels good.
It's hard to get there with stuff, especially stuff that's like exercise. It's just not a core part of my habitual routines in any way, but it feels good that it kind of is now.
And if I keep going, like it'll build and maybe I'll do more than just walk a mile, hopefully, but that's, you know, keeping the mile a day thing is feeling really good, which is,
Not unsurprising little surprising, but I'm glad it's working Yeah from what I've learned about when I hated running to when I was okay with running and I still don't like running is So long as you sit in the point where you think you could do more And you don't push yourself too soon to go to the next step You'll always stay in that kind of I'm okay with this You just don't want to be in the I hate everything about everything stage and but I'm not even exercising.
I It's an easy trap. Like, I get on social media and stuff, I get things, you know, influencers, fitness people, where it's like, oh, I could do that. What if I add... And part of me is like, oh, no, build the habit. Don't add too much. But then my other part of my brain is like, you lazy fuck. You could do way more. What are you talking about? And I'm like, no, no, no. Right.
We're still like we're sticking to a mile, maybe a couple of miles. We're sticking to doable until it's a habit. And then because I 100 percent, if it becomes a thing where I'm like, oh, I hate this. I stopped doing it.
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Chapter 4: What myths surround the number 13?
I'm awful at maintaining habits like that until it's like ingrained. This might be the longest I've ever stuck with a New Year's resolution. It was pretty good. It was progress. It was really good. Best I can relate is I've been a lot better about flossing my teeth. Like brushing, I do. Flossing was like once or twice a week, but I've been flossing at least once a day. That's a lot of flossing.
Jesus. I've been doing it. Yeah, but nobody flosses once a day. I know, but I actually like have been. Well, I floss once a week. I'm like, all right, close enough. I don't know why or whatever reason, but I've just been doing it more. Yeah, well, it's all good. Taking care of ourselves is good because you know why?
We're not getting younger.
That's actually what my next episode is going to be about. Can I also say one thing that is very funny that I'm discovering? No. Yeah, go ahead.
Chapter 5: How does the fear of the number 13 manifest in society?
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Cut recording, Mark. Just tell me I'm interested. This is one of those things where it's like even talking about this, I can tell like it could cross over into me being pompous and weird and elitist and whatnot. But I find it very funny because the movie came out. So theaters are paying their share. Like I've talked about that before on interviews and stuff.
It's like a 50-50 split between theaters and theaters. Me, for the pay minus the percentage that Centurion Films, the people helping out the small company with the small theaters thing. They're sending checks. Almost all of them are sending physical checks. Each individual theater. So... That's how I operate still. Is that bad? Do you write checks? I actually have a follow-up on that, Wade.
I have an interesting follow-up from the subreddit on that. But Mark, continue your story. They're sending you physical checks for some fucking reason. And it's not even a problem that I have to deal with, but it's a problem that my accountant has to deal with. Because Mary is her name, and she's great. We've been working together for years and years and years now.
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Chapter 6: What are some historical events associated with Friday the 13th?
I know Mary. She's the best. Yeah, Mary's the best, right? So Mary has to...
to make trips to the bank with like bundles of checks this big and i'm like do you do you need like security or something do you need someone to help you with it and it's like they're they're they're it's really wonderful it's so cool like get paid and obviously i would give a bonus to the crew and this is great the dollar amounts are kind of like make your mind explode sometimes but the i haven't seen a picture of it but it's a visual imagery of just like a bundle of checks like in in
There's some blowing away because she just can't carry them all. Yeah.
Like in the wind.
Anyway, it's 2026 and they're still sending checks, which is perfectly valid. It's a very okay thing to do. I think it's just funny. Mary's office is like that scene from Harry Potter where they're trying to get him the invitation to Hogwarts. The owls are... She's like in the office like, fuck, oh, God. Yeah, yeah. So it's an interesting time.
Because right now is like a month after the movie came out, which is weird to think. I feel like it's been out for months now. That is crazy. It still feels like it just happened. It's been just about one month, which, you know, things usually get paid on a next month basis. So it's a fun novel thing that I am experiencing right now. That's so silly.
And Wade, the subreddit, a banker, wanted you to know using checks is actually the least secure way you can deal with money in the modern world. Because on a check is your bank account, generally your full name and address, any information they might need to fully impersonate you. And also, apparently...
Thiefs, whatever, forgers, whatever they are, can just take a check that you've written for some actual thing and wash the ink off or whatever.
Some wash it, whatever that means. And then just make it a check to themselves from you.
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Chapter 7: How does the concept of a 'baker's dozen' relate to the number 13?
And so should movie theaters. How who wants to write a check? I don't even know if I have physical checks. If someone if I had to do something and they were like, oh, you need to write a check, I'd be like, never mind.
whatever this is i'll figure it out i'll go somewhere else that's fine all right i'll make a note of that i'll still do it some companies you have to like there's no online payment so like they force you to i have zero interactions with companies that require me to send them physical money we had like a lawn care company come through because we had like a couple trees go down and whenever they sent the bill like the only option to pay them was mailing a check
That's like my first question. When I hire like someone to work on the house or like do like fix, you know, whatever, handyman, whatever. I get the reviews and then I message them and I'm like, hey, can you fix a broken sink? And also, do you take digital forms of payment? And if the answer to either of my questions is no, I'm like, ah, it fixed itself and talk to the next one.
I've never thought to ask that follow-up.
I'm always like... Review good. You do a good job. You know what tree is. You can remove tree. Great. We work together.
That's crazy, man. That's crazy work. I could never... It's not hard. Writing a check really is not that difficult. I mean, I know how to do it. The problem is not that it's difficult.
The problem is, why the fuck would you want to do that? It's such a pain. It means you got to mail it. It means you have to have stamps. I don't have stamps. Who the fuck has stamps?
Oh, we got some Betty Whites right now. And I forget the other one. We got some stamps.
You have kinds of stamps? What?
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Chapter 8: What humorous insights are shared about horror movies and Friday the 13th?
Apparently that's a huge part of it. Huge. That's one of the biggest things movie theaters do. They show movies and then they write checks. I mean, it's got to be because they're writing to all the different movie companies. They're showing a bunch of them. I'm not going to lie, Bob. I thought you were about to tell Mark about the town thing. No, I wasn't going to bring that up.
That's well, now you did. Yeah, I guess I did. What the town? I feel like you have to tell him about it now. So there's apparently a whole town for sale. It's a village. Yeah, it comes with a church, some houses, some other stuff. It's in Maine. And it would have had like 26 structures or something. Wait, six million for how much stuff? For a whole village. A whole village?
A whole little, cute little town up in Maine. Six million dollars. It had like 20, it had like 30 structures. 26, 30, some number of structures. Buildings, houses, like Wade said, like there's a church. Oh my god, it's not six, it's 5.5. 25 structures, 50 acres. Oh, and you know what we could put in that town? A movie theater. Wait, it's delightful. Also, it looks fake.
There's this facade of what looks like a row of garage doors. Have you seen this? I didn't really look at it. Wait, what's it called? What did you search? If you just scroll down, it looks like, oh, this is charming. It's charming, charming. And then get to the fifth picture that just says garage. Wait a minute. Whoa, wait. Yeah, what the fuck? What?
it's a realtor.com article charming antique village in maine for sale but that is just actually a facade of a fit it's like a fake stable house it's just the front wall that's really never seen anything like it but like the rest a lot tons of these look super awesome some of these have cars parked in front of them like people live there i don't understand what this is exactly
We could buy this and then have a permanent town to film things in forever. Oh, my DM over at Lost Initiatives when he told me about this, he's like, you could tell Mark he could film there. He could. And I was like, they have a pond.
We could do our boat episodes on the pond. Peen house, peen, peen town, peen town, peen town, peen.
We're really upgrading, guys. We're going to have a Kickstarter going for no other reason than to give us money so that we don't have to spend our own money. Oh, I hope they take checks. It'll be a great investment for anyone who wants to send us a paper check in the mail like it's 1937. Yeah, the entire distractible audience is going to live in this 50-acre spot. I think we can make it work.
Taxes will be crazy high. Can we start a cult? yeah just five and a half million dollars and you could own your very own town not you mark we're like listeners you could own your very own village in maine called tuffle what's it called tut hill tut hill do you think he even knows this place it's it's uh he was in maine right he's from maine he's a maine boy right he was probably born here
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